If you do a search on hip hop in the TPS Teachers Network, you'll find multiple discussions around hip-hop music. This article written by Austin McCoy for the American Historical Association describes his experiences using hip-hop in teaching. I hope you'll find it useful and interesting.

"Teaching the history of hip hop pushes us to think about how culture intersects with many topics we cover in our modern US history courses—including immigration, globalization, law, policing, the transformation of cities and suburbs, politics, business and capitalism, and youth culture. And, ultimately, investigating the history of hip-hop culture encourages us to think broadly about the archive."

Using sources including rap lyrics, albums, and music videos and visual art like graffiti, one historian pushes his students to think historically about hip-hop culture. Austin McCoy. Image cropped.

P.S. I ran across this article on Bluesky, which I only joined three days ago. I'm slowly building my list of people to follow. The hashtag #iteachsocialstudies helped me get started. 

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Written by Wendy Smith
(Reproduced by permission from the January-February 1996 issue of Civilization magazine)

Explores a unique time in American history when the federal government organized and produced theater events in an effort to provide work for theater professionals who were out of work as a result of the Great Depression. The exhibition features materials from the Library’s Federal Theatre Project Collection.

The Federal Theatre Project employed photographers in every major city who recorded performances, rehearsals, and images of performers and also captured behind-the-scenes work, stage sets, costumes, audiences, and theaters. Explore a sampling of the more than 9000 images.